The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-06-02
VOL. ~.
Randolph Tucker will deliver the
commencement address at Yale.
The mosquitoes will soon begin their
great annual drill in New Jersey.

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great annual drill in New Jersey.
Ex-Postmaster General Hatton is
booming Roscoe Conkling in the New
York corridors.
Lord Colin Campbell is shown to be
bankrupt financially, Morally he has
been one nearly all his lie,
A ndmber Of grave-diggers went ON
u strike at Flutbush the other day
went to digging their own graves, as it
We're.
A woman in Berlin, Canada, re-
Gently gave birth to her twenty-tirSt
child. She ought to be retired ON a
pension.
There is but one good feature about
the railway law. It's strict enforce
ment would build up our steamboat
interests.
A swimming school in Frank-on-the
Main announces in English "Swim-
ming instructions given by u teachers
Of both sexes
MoZart's Piano and Haydn'S baton
more recently the property OF the i'm
mortal List, were willed by him to the
city of Vienna.
Meat.axe critics in the aesthetic West
describe Mrs. Langtry's stage kiss as
"a gurgIing gurgle as of water trick
ling from kitchen sink"
Door-keeper Dinsmore, of the White
House, has resigned his position after
twelve years of service in order to go
into business in New England.
All The Souvenirs, mementos, etc OF
Mary, Queen OF SCOTS, are to be gath
cred IN one place in England and eX-
hibited some time this summer.
Ole Bulls son, Alexander, predicts
for the new star, Anna Kirbet, a bright
er place in the operate armament
that which Jenny Lind once held.
Sam Jones says ~ don't know
where hell is. don't want to know,
for | amt headn' that way. Pm 60
ing to let them fellers as are goin' thar
find out"
Orange Noble, of Erie who has been
drilling for oil in Wyoming Territory,
Announces the finding of a very heavy
grade and thinks 1t may be struck in
paying quantities.
The fatal slope Nantichoke, Pa, the
scene OF a terrible disaster several
years ago, was visited by another ex
plosion OF fire damp, whereby three
lives will probably be lost.
New York appears to be anxious tC
monkey with the business end Of {
worlds fair. She might get some
points from her sister city near the
mouth of the Mississippi.
TO Prove that he was in earnes
when he said "The more | see of mel
the better like dogs" Colonel Inger
soil has bought big St. Bernard, anC
the two are inseparable after oflic
hours.
Banker Seligman's daughter Fanni
received so many valuable presents OF
the occasion Of her marriage to Rot
ert +. Nothan that four private deteC
tives had to guard the treasure owe
night.
d. 0. Mills, Whitelaw Reid's fathe
in-law, has given $4,000 for the pu
pose Of erecting new building o
the grounds OF the Bellevue Hospita
New York, to be used as trainin
school for male nurses
Mrs. Beecher has been presente
with an engrossed copy of the resol
tions adopted by the Brookln Con
mon Council on the death of her hu
band and informed that the fund #
his monument now reaches $21 ,439.
Miss Jennie Hopper, well-knov
Pittsburg society belle and the daug
ter OF a prominent lumber dealer
that city, has become a member of Il
order of the Little Sisters of the Poe
whose headquarters are in France.
Capt j, +. Burke, of the Gate CT
Guard has been asked to resig
There will be war among the membC
of the company, as one of the membC
has sued the Captain for $3.50, t
amount deposited for the Europe
tour.
An Alabama man remarked the OF
er day hear they are saying I'll
the south is not prospering. Mayb
don't know what 'prospering' mea
but it seems to me when a lot of la
that cost $500 six years ago sells
$4,000 now, the south has no reas
to complain"
Professor Dwight, of Columbia, 81
of Henry Georges theory "Witb,